Cinema
Saribao
Hugues Raharimanantsoa · 1970
Synopsis
A farmer leaves the countryside to sell his charcoal in town, and the journey turns into a misadventure. This short tale of a few minutes, one of the very first fiction films made by a Malagasy, is known only through this outline, which is reported by the studies devoted to the island's cinema; its episodes are not known.
Context
The Malagasy Centre for the Production of Educational Films opened in 1969 to make instructional films and documentaries for villages; it trained technicians until the mid-seventies. From this generation came, at the turn of the decade, the country's first short fiction films, among them this one, which Midi Madagasikara places at the take-off of Malagasy cinema. An online chronology of Malagasy cinema gives it under the title Sari and in 1971; other listings write Saribao and date it to 1970. Production went dormant in 1975.
Who it is for
For those interested in the very first steps of Malagasy fiction; no copy in circulation is reported by the sources.
Prizes and reception
Placed by the Malagasy press and chronologies at the origin of the island's fiction cinema.
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